I want to use my organisation's mailbox.org account for sending transactional emails (e.g. for mailing lists and registration emails for our mastodon and lemmy services).
Is this possible? Or do I need to use an email delivery service that specialise in transactional emails like Mailjet, Mailgun or Brevo?
Any ideas?
@samuel do you have your own domain that you use with the mailbox.org account? If so, I think it should work for you to send emails from your own server as long as you make sure your SPF record for your domain allows emails to be sent from that IP address. Then mailbox.org is not involved in sending the emails, but if people reply then the replies will go there. Sending and receiving are two very different things. For sending you don't really need any account, just do the SPF and DKIM stuff.
@eliasr ...If I want to send more with Mailjet I have to pay for a premium account for about 5-6 euro per month. Totally doable and not that expensive. But I figured that since we already pay for mailbox.org, maybe we could use that for transactional emails
@samuel Maybe you can do something like this?
"Sending e-mails via mailbox.org with msmtp on Fedora"
https://zaage.it/tutorials/sending-emails-via-mailboxorg-with-msmtp-on-fedora/
@samuel here they write something about this kind of things:
"A private e-mail account can normally send up to 10.000 e-mails per day. Note that doing so may raise the attention of some of our protection measures so that there is a possibility for some users to be blocked after sending just 5000 e-mails per day, for example."
@eliasr Thanks! It sounds like we should be able to use that
@eliasr Yup, I want to connect konstellationen.org to it (and aggregatet.org and spejset.org ideally) and send bulk emails.
However, I do not have my own smtp server so I need that.
I have setup spf and dkim records for other spejset.org in order for mailjet (I think it was) to be able to send emails. However, Mailjet has a free tier with a maximum of about 100-200 emails per day or something like that. If I want to send newsletter 1-3 times/month I will exceed that.
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